Here one is introduced to Will, a young boy who, in the absence of his father, is left to look after his troubled mother alone, in a world very much like our own. He has served as President of the Society of Authors and is a notable campaigner for public libraries in the UK.The Subtle Knife (1997) is the second novel in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Pullman is also known for the Sally Lockhart series and as an editor of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. The Book of Dust, another trilogy with some of the same characters and deepening the exploration of Pullman’s ideas, includes La Belle Sauvage(2017 Folio 2021) and The Secret Commonwealth (2019 Folio 2022). It has been adapted for stage and TV, and the first book was also the basis for a major feature film. The trilogy won the Carnegie Medal and, later, the ‘Carnegie of Carnegies’, as well as the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. He began publishing children’s fiction while working as a teacher in Summertown, north Oxford, a job he left after the success of Northern Lights(1995 published as T he Golden Compass in the United States), the first book in the trilogy His Dark Materials (Folio edition 2008). As a schoolboy and student he discovered John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the poetry of William Blake, both of which have been significant influences on his own writing.
He graduated from Exeter College, Oxford, with a third-class BA in English in 1968 (Oxford later honoured him with a D.Litt. Sir Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and grew up in Wales, though he also travelled extensively due to his father’s work as a pilot in the Royal Air Force. With his formidable background as a practising physicist, he follows in the tradition of Stephen Hawking: Philip Pullman describes Rovelli in his incisive new introduction as part of ‘a great age of writing about science by those that do it’, praising his ability to use poetry as well as mathematics to guide non-physicists through the mysteries of our existence. It forms a perfect setting for Rovelli’s meditation on time, and what it is to experience it as a human through memory, longing and loss. The text is punctuated by small inset pictures, ranging from busts of Aristotle and Newton to models of the Solar System. His approach makes use of simple diagrams, formulas and graphs to illuminate mind-bending concepts, such as the curvature of space-time and the ‘light cones’ that govern our perception of it. The Folio edition of The Order of Time stands out for Daniel Streat’s playful, inventive design in bold primary colours – starting with his eye-catching cover and slipcase, featuring a web of gold geometric lines on indigo cloth.
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